Frankly, this name looks and sounds so trendy that it makes me sick to my stomach. It's sad, really, how great, ancient names are taken, mutilated, and popularized, stripped of their dignity; "Brayden" was once "Bradán" ("BRAH-dawn") and it has been turned into something that sounds overly youthful, something that will not age very well but rather become an embarrassing remnant of a trend.

I love this boy's name! Circa 2004! :D I plan to name my first son Brayden, maybe he'll be my only son but surely I'll use this name! It's becoming the new Ethan and Ryan I suppose. Brayden creates an image of a little boy as spunky, a surfer, with long brown hair, blue eyes and a wide awesome smile running around the beach. As a man, I see a Brayden earning 80K. Great name parents/soon to be parents of a baby Brayden!

Heinous! It reminds me of donkeys, too! And I can't imagine anybody over the age of 3 named this. Grandpa Brayden sounds just as silly as Grandpa Poop. What about naming him Brandon or Benjamin instead? At least those age well!

-- Anonymous User 7/26/2010

Another tacky -ayden name that suits a four-year-old but is so hard to picture for a grown man. I really don't get this whole "let's give all our boys rhyming names" trend.

I happen to really love this name. I'm an 18 year old girl, and it's been good to me all my life. My parents actually made it as an arrangement of letters from my grandparents names, so it's like I'm named after each of them. Say what you will, but I'm proud to be named with this "new trendy boy name".

Personally, any name that ends with aden is soo not hot. but my boy likes the name brayden so i was thinking about using it for my dogs name but im not really sure though, iv recently been diagnosed with a bacterial infection so I could be going out on a limb.